Everything posted by Lexx
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Metacritic with a different name?
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
This thread is fueled by misogynie.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
This is just too dumb. PS: I think he looks awesome with sick tats and I like that they haven't gone all super serial with suit and tie and crap. /Edit: Just like that guy the last time with his mohawk hair.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
It shows that these folks are smart. Trying not to get dragged into this mess is the best thing they can do.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
So gg is right-wing and anti-gg is left-wing now?
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Pictures of your games Part 5
Boyo? srsly?
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What are you playing now?
Yeah, it does look interesting, but imo it suffers from the same problem that any other game of that genre has: You've seen everything soon, and then the game gets boring and pointless. In case of The Long Dark, it's a huge problem that most of the time you are looking at a loading bar (when looting). It's a slow and boring mechanic. A small village with 5 houses and many shelves looks like this: Loading, Loading, Loading, Item!, Loading, Item!, Item!, Loading, Hey now let's check out this other house - wooops a wolf! - Ok, we made it to the next house. Loading, Loading, Loading, Item!, Item!, Loading, .... You get the point. The landscape looks awesome at times, but it also is lacking important looking landmarks quite often. I'd like to compare such games always with what one of the Fallout: New Vegas developers said about the worldmap. Here they wanted the player to see at least one of the few huge landmarks that are on the map at any time (Helios One, Dinky the Dinosaur, the Black Mountain radio stuff, the NCR and Desert Ranger statue at the Mojave Outpost, etc.) and this made it look interesting. Didn't matter where you've been, there was always a point in the distance where you thought "hey, I totally want to check that out!". The Long Dark *does* have such cool landmarks too, but usually you only see them if you are right in front of them (that huge train bridge was awesome, and so is the hydroelectric power plant). But yeah, that's it so far. Rest of the time you walk through mountain corridors that all look the same, hoping not to meet any wolves and if you do, that there is a house where you can rest a day and heal up without running out of food. Last but not least, the game gets super repetitive fast (if the "loot loading" didn't destroyed you yet), because you do nothing else but walking around, trying to find food items. Yeah, "survival!" etc. etc. but let's face it... it's boring after a short while. Even if you could do stuff like partially building your own base with placing custom house parts and so on. For me, such games need a real point of some sort. Scatter around notes that tell me stories, give me real tasks to do like "find parts to repair a radio" or w/e... Let me progress in some kind of way other than "find the best clothes and keep them at 100%" and "find a rifle to make getting food easier" or "increase the 'days surivived' counter as much as possible".
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Well, I've only read what was posted here.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Doesn't read more sarcastic to me than other tweets that had been posted here, tbh.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Aha, on page one of this thread people where all like "who cares" and now it's not an issue anymore. :>
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Pointing out that a problem someone is experiencing isn't widespread is talking down to someone? Okie dokie. I find it more weird that there are other people who actually support what she posted there. "@Spacekatgal Actually, it's about ethics in games journalism." "@Spacekatgal That Retweet you just posted...Jesus, what's wrong with these people? " "@Spacekatgal God you're a badass Smart women are the best people."
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Movies you've seen recently
Can't get more awesome than nazis riding dinosaurs.
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt [2014]
Pretty sure it's ... a) So they can post news about Witcher 3 every week for 8 weeks (2 DLCs per week) and b) So people will buy the game instead of just downing it. If you want all the "DLCs", you've got to download some pirated stuff / patch every week, and people might get so annoyed by this that they buy the game instead. Also it appears to be rather cheap stuff, like Oblivion horse armor level. So don't confuse this with e.g. Fallout New Vegas DLCs.
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Movies you've seen recently
The first one was boring, imo. Second one was better. Let's see how the third one will be.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
Would be funny if absolutely nothing happens.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
I remember a few cases where people who posted on 4chan turned out to be murderers. Some even posted pictures of their shait or hints about the locations there, etc. If I remember correct, there was even a wiki page with a list of all these events somewhere on the web. It's horrible, but once again, you can hardly blame everyone for the actions a few nutjobs. And drawing a line to GG because of this is as stupid as saying the last school shooting was because of GG less than 24 hours after it happened.
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The Funny Things Thread
I don't get this 29 Palms joke.
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Journalism and sexism in the games industry
- Pictures of your games Part 5
Had the same thought when playing the beginning. Flashing lights and stuff all around, couldn't see anything, didn't even realized the game was going already. Will seriously need to get used to that first. On the other side, I had a similar feeling when playing Unreal Tournament 3 for the very first time. There had been so many objects and stuff in the maps, it was so hard to look at anything important, because my brain wasn't used to all the details on screen.- What are you playing now?
- Pictures of your games Part 5